I was a big fan of Monogram's three Fred Flypogger kits by Mouse as a kid primarily due to this cool ad that ran in DC comic books in early 1965:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2450/3645491723_83bc1afa9b.jpg)
I have all three original kits M.I.B. in my model kit collection. I wish Monogram had released more of them. How many others like the Mouse Fred Flypogger kits?
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These are awesome, I have a bunch of Deals Wheels kits
Here's the box art from the three kits:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/AMonogram.jpg)
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Those are very cool! It would be nice if Monogram reissued them.
Monogram did reissue Super Fuzz and perhaps the others just a few years ago in the exact same boxes. Here's a build-up somebody did of Super Fuzz:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/AFred.jpg)
C:)
That is nice! I am going to have to track them down. I think I may have seen them at the hobby shop I go to every once in awhile.
Super Fuzz is the only Mouse kit to be reissued as far as I know. I think sales were low and plans to do the others were scrapped.
Love this stuff!
Here's the other two 'built up'
(not mine - pics found here & there)
(http://gallery.unrealspawnboard.com/albums/userpics/10006/fy-speedshift.bmp)
(http://gallery.unrealspawnboard.com/albums/userpics/10006/fly%20flip%20out.bmp)
I have an original Speed Shift unbuilt kit! It is complete with all parts including the blue eyeballs! ;) I also have an original ad from a 1965 DC Comics Metal Men comic in color and a black & white ad for the Fred Flypogger contest in 1965 from an unknown magazine or comic.
Terry
Neat!
Here I am showing off my vintage Monogram Fred Flypogger kits to my buddy Balticboy:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Hepcatshowingkits.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/HepcatFriend2.jpg)
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Just like our cats...not too interested in boxed models. But they sure do love to get at the finished ones! ;D
Rest assured that I treat my models and all other my other toys with the utmost respect!
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Here's a better picture of my kits:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/SuperFuzzandotherMongramKits.jpg)
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Another fellow that had a great deal to do with the times was Stanley Miller ...aka MOUSE! He is probably most known for his concert poster work for the Gratefull Dead. His MONSTER art is not as easily found as Big Daddy's these days. Miller also had a line of models with Monogram during the mid 60's ...Fred Flypogger.
All I have to offer here are some colored drawings. I know allot of you will recognize them:
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSERotEye.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEShifterArm.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEExcuseMyDust.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEMothersWorry.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEBeast.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEDragStripTerror.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEDotBugMeMan.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEDrifter2.jpg)
If you like these ...I have quite a few more.
More MOUSE:
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSESuperShift.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSERoadDevil.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSERoadster.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEUnchained.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEGarabieCar.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEGoGoGTO.jpg)
Cool! That's what I like. Well done renderings done even better by Weldon! I'm a big fan of Mouse as well as of "Big Daddy" Roth.
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(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEBeatBeast.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEGrimGobbler.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEHorsePower.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEKillerVette.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEHotRod.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEMotorPsyco.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEMouseEquipped.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSELongArm.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSENoRod.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSESportsCars.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSESufinSafari.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEVetteCong.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEPeace.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSESpeedShift.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSERasisinHell.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSESmile.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSESurfCity.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSESwinco-ism.jpg)
Boss! Them designs would really stoke the minds of the straights!
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(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEAmamugger.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEAmericanYouth.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSECollegeGuy.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEFredFlypogger.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEScreamin40.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEOutCrowd.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEWarmonger.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSEOlymoic.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSERaceRF.jpg)
Far out pics weldonmc.
Awesome pic of Super Fuzz build up model Hep.
Quote from: CreepysFan on April 16, 2011, 02:35:44 AM
Far out pics weldonmc.
Glad you liked them CREEPYSFAN ...I sure enjoy coloring them every chance I get!
Weldon
Quote from: CreepysFan on April 16, 2011, 02:35:44 AM
Far out pics weldonmc.
They're certainly a treat to the eyes, at least for individuals as badly twisted as we all seem to be!
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Quote Awesome pic of Super Fuzz build up model Hep.
Sadly not mine. I just lifted that image off the web.
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How about a BIG GREEN Rot-Eye? I was looking for something to do the other night and this is what I wound up with...
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/Mouse/MOUSERot-EYEGreen.jpg)
...WELDON
Well neon green does look to be his colour!
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I have a few more MOUSE drawings that I colored I thought you might like to see too:
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/Booga.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/DoIt.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/ff.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/FordEater.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/Glad-I-ator.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/LastDate.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MonsterHauler.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MonsterMasher.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/Drag.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MoonEyes.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MOUSE.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/MouseMonsterClub.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/PussyGalor.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/RailJob.jpg)
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/TongueChow.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/VetteFred.jpg) (http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/ROTH%20Color%20Drawings/Color350High/VetteLover.jpg)
...that's all I have right now ...I hope you like these ...Weldon
Cool!
It's such a treat to see these designs in colour!
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Evidently a fourth Fred Flypogger kit, War Monger, was planned for release by Monogram but disappointing sales of the first three caused the plans to be cancelled. While considerably more detailed than the competing Hawk Weird-Ohs, the hot rod fink craze was already fading away in 1965 when the Fred Flypogger kits hit store shelves.
You can still vote for your favourite Monogram Fred Flypogger kit in this thread though:
http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=17113.0 (http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=17113.0)
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Does anyone know what the War Monger looked like? Any relation to the Warmonger drawing? ???
Which War Monger drawing?
???
See reply #20. Looks like a heavily armed, armoured Mustang, with tank treads and a $ in the grille (a subtle critique of the military-industrial complex, no doubt.)
That drawing would I imagine have provided the seminal inspiration for the kit.
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/MOUSEWarmonger.jpg)
I don't think any kind of subtle critique of the military-industrial complex would have been intended at the time though. Kids just like tanks, that's all, and Monogram was marketing these kits to kids.
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Which leads back to my question: does anything exist by way of drawings/concepts for the Warmonger submitted to Monogram by the artist? What are the sources for this story? The internets have only vague references.
Quote from: Majorvictory on March 20, 2012, 04:21:00 PM
What are the sources for this story?
My source is the book
Classic Plastic Model Kits by Rick Polizzi:
http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=17361.0 (http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=17361.0)
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Thanks much. I'll keep an eye peeled for a (reasonably priced) copy.
These are the greatest!
Here is my completed Super Fuzz, fun kit to build.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/barfco/fuzz.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/barfco/aug92012072.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/barfco/aug92012068.jpg)
Oh wow! That looks really cool!
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(http://gallery.unrealspawnboard.com/albums/userpics/10006/fly-00.png)
Neat! Were those Mouse Monster Club cards issued in the Monogram kits?
???
BIG GREEN Rot-Eye...
(http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w243/weldonmc/Mouse%20Color/MOUSERot-EYEGreen.jpg)
Here are more pictures of a couple of my Monogram Fred Flypogger kits:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%202/SuperFuzzMouse.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%202/SpeedShiftMouse.jpg)
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Quote from: zombywoof on August 10, 2012, 09:04:00 AM
Here is my completed Super Fuzz, fun kit to build.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/barfco/fuzz.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/barfco/aug92012072.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/barfco/aug92012068.jpg)
THAT'S my favorite!!
my builds of the flypogger series.
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f253/buzzconroy/fuzz.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/buzzconroy/media/fuzz.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f253/buzzconroy/flypogger.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/buzzconroy/media/flypogger.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f253/buzzconroy/flipout.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/buzzconroy/media/flipout.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f253/buzzconroy/112_1257.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/buzzconroy/media/112_1257.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f253/buzzconroy/models003.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/buzzconroy/media/models003.jpg.html)
Those are fabulous! I can't wait until you treat us to a Speed Shift buildup.
:)
Some interesting and useful information regarding the scarcity of the original Monogram Fred Flypogger kits can be gleaned from this book published in 1996 by noted board game enthusiast and collector Rick Polizzi:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/612VDTHDM9L._SS500_.jpg)
The book contains the following estimate of prices for boxed Monogram Fred Flypogger kits:
Speed Shift! $280
Super Fuzz! $280
Flip Out! $125
Now we can argue from now until the cows come home about a current price list let alone one from 1996, but the fact is that Polizzi's estimates provide a very decent ranking of the relative scarcities of these kits. Quite simply, I'm in general agreement with Polizzi's assessment and I've been collecting these and other select model kits since 1982-83.
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https://www.monstersinmotion.com/cart/model-kits-other-model-kits-a-z-c-271_291/fred-flypogger-as-monogram-s-flip-out-resin-model-kit-p-13842 (https://www.monstersinmotion.com/cart/model-kits-other-model-kits-a-z-c-271_291/fred-flypogger-as-monogram-s-flip-out-resin-model-kit-p-13842) Just thought i would share the info scroll down the page and you'll see the other kit
Here's a fabulous picture from around 1960 of a booth at some sort of exhibition at which Stanley "Mouse" Miller would sell his airbrushed T-shirts:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Mouse_zpsodpopqke.jpg)
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Quote from: Hepcat on February 07, 2017, 10:35:46 AM
Some interesting and useful information regarding the scarcity of the original Monogram Fred Flypogger kits can be gleaned from this book published in 1996 by noted board game enthusiast and collector Rick Polizzi:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/612VDTHDM9L._SS500_.jpg)
The book contains the following estimate of prices for boxed Monogram Fred Flypogger kits:
Speed Shift! $280
Super Fuzz! $280
Flip Out! $125
Now we can argue from now until the cows come home about a current price list let alone one from 1996, but the fact is that Polizzi's estimates provide a very decent ranking of the relative scarcities of these kits. Quite simply, I'm in general agreement with Polizzi's assessment and I've been collecting these and other select model kits since 1982-83.
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I have the same book and absolutely love it!
Here are some rad cool early Mouse T-shirt ads:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/mouse-ad-hotrod-customcar-magsept1961_zpstfvkz22g.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Mouse%201_zpspgnefxvi.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/mouse-ad-SMALLER_zpsz6k61m3v.jpg)
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Many fans of Stanley "Mouse" Miller's Fred Flypogger model kits and related T-shirts may be unaware that Stanley Miller is even better known for his rock concert posters from the late sixties onward.
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Mouse%201_zpstme1lgwq.jpg)
His posters are now highly prized by rock memorabilia collectors. Here are a few examples:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Mouse%204_zps9rshnbaj.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Mouse%202_zps7pxskjxa.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Mouse%203_zpsk8lllwe2.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Mouse%206_zpsftfbfkra.jpg)
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Here's a cool book on the artwork of Stanley Miller:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/California%20dreams_zpszwbsunb0.jpg)
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(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Surf_zpsfjm9xh5m.jpeg)
The above Surf Dude Wacky Wobbler offered by Funko strongly reminds me of the Flip Out! model kit from 1965:
(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Flip%20Out_zpsmazfggpw.jpg)
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Here are scans of both sides of the contest entry form that came inside the Flip Out! kit:
(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Fred%205_zpscdldunhq.png)
(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Fred%20Flypogger%20ad%202_zpsjqvwi8cx.jpg)
And here are scans of both sides of the instruction sheet:
(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Fred%20Flypogger%203_zpsdnvqyltb.png)
(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Fred%20Flypogger%202_zpsiiovej37.jpg)
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Here are some good photos of an original factory-built display model of Super Fuzz! which Monogram issued to stores in 1965 for promotional purposes:
(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Fred%202_zpsybz0znlr.png)
(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Fred%201_zpsmvtzeif9.png)
(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Fred%205_zpsrgksvxrr.png)
(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Fred%203_zps4g6jad51.png)
(https://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Fred%204_zpsuviht9mh.png)
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Here's a magazine ad from 1965 for the contest Monogram used to promote the Fred Flypogger kits:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mouse_contest.png)
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Quote from: Hepcat on January 21, 2011, 10:47:51 AM
Monogram did reissue Super Fuzz and perhaps the others just a few years ago in the exact same boxes. Here's a build-up somebody did of Super Fuzz:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/AFred.jpg)
C:)
That is a great buildup of the Super Fuzz kit, hope when I do mine it comes out half as nice.
When I was about 10 and Rat Fink was popular a kid down the street was airbrushing T-shirts with similar artwork on it and selling them. My mom bought me one and it was my favorite shirt until it wore out. It was a crazy monster character in a car. The kid's dad built most of the houses in the development we lived in when it was started and restored model T's down in his garage.
Here's another great Super Fuzz build by UMA's own Mark McGovern:
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Blanchard%2015_zpsbnquepws.jpg)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Blanchard14_zpsubcmjned.jpg)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Blanchard17_zpstpk4iyr1.jpg)
Mark built this one for model kit collector Mike Blanchard who owns The Core (https://www.thecoreonline.com/) comic shop in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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Here are three really good shots of the rad Speed Shift model that Mark McGovern built for Mike Blanchard:
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Blanchard%2019_zpsw6apnquk.jpg)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Speed%20Shift_zpswkx7bw8o.jpg?t=1580190470)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Blanchard%2018_zpsphvpbzi4.jpg)
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I restored this badly damaged kit last year. It was a gift from a good friend and I also have the Speed Shift kit in need of restoration as well. These old kits are getting hard and harder to find and the prices are just going thru the roof. I really wish we would see some reissues of these things.
(https://i.ibb.co/DLK9B0c/IMG-4348.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QXmPWyS)
(https://i.ibb.co/jW2VWMh/IMG-4349.jpg) (https://ibb.co/mXwvXqJ)
(https://i.ibb.co/cx7bGbt/IMG-4351.jpg) (https://ibb.co/FnjsSsJ)
(https://i.ibb.co/f0kTsqg/IMG-4355.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ggScxm2)
(https://i.ibb.co/JFgb5Qk/IMG-4360.jpg) (https://ibb.co/XkMdS8J)
(https://i.ibb.co/dkqvKz9/IMG-4353.jpg) (https://ibb.co/HGsygkv)
Oh man! That translucent blue pearl paint you used was fabulous.
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Quote from: Hepcat on January 17, 2020, 09:35:57 PM
Oh man! That translucent blue pearl paint you used was fabulous.
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I use a lot of automotive urethane from House of Kolors on many of my builds. The last coat is generally Kosmic Kleer with some flake in it!
Here are some terrific shots of the wild Flip Out! model that Mark McGovern built for Mike Blanchard:
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Flip%20Out_Right_zpsirveiquz.jpg?t=1580190474)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Flip%20Out_Front_zpsrda24fzp.jpg?t=1580190474)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Flip%20Out_Left_zpsilvs27bg.jpg?t=1580190474)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/MM2_zpsczsgx1mk.jpg?t=1580190805)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/MM4_zpsthybe7tk.jpg?t=1580186472)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/MM3_zpstkykchgt.jpg?t=1580186472)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/MM1_zpsvgus3cn3.jpg?t=1580186472)
Dig how Mark kit bashed the little Mouse into a surfing rodent complete with swim trunks!
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The Revell model kits based on "Big Daddy" Roth's show cars were selling so well in the early 1960's that other model kit companies began scouting the show car circuit for custom rods on which they could base competing kits of their own. One of the very earliest of these was Monogram's Li'l Coffin.
The Li'l Coffin had been built by Dave Stuckey of Wichita, Kansas. The body was based on a 1932 Ford two door sedan and it was powered by a 1954 331 cubic inch De Soto hemi with six carbonators. In 1963 the Li'l Coffin won the Top Custom Car award at the Oakland Roadster Show, the premier rod show in the nation.
So impressed were Monogram executives by the Li'l Coffin that they bought the car and exhibited it at the 1964 New York World's Fair! The Li'l Coffin kit that Monogram put out in 1964 remains an all-time classic.
The bigger kids down the street, Fred and Mike, had one when I was a kid so I bought one too. I had real problems trying to assemble the thing though because some of the parts didn't fit together very well. Here's a closeup shot of the unbuilt one I have today:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/LilCoffin.jpg)
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Nice, Hep, I wish I still had mine. I know this may sound weird, but I really like the smell of cardboard and styrophene when you first open a kit.
Quote from: Mord on February 02, 2020, 07:11:56 PM...I really like the smell of cardboard and styrophene when you first open a kit.
Not at all surprising. I think most of us who built model kits as kids still love the old smell of styrene plastic and cardboard. Plus modelling cement and enamel paint of course!
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Quote from: Hepcat on February 02, 2020, 09:31:23 PM
Plus modelling cement and enamel paint of course!
Oh, yeah. I always wondered why I felt so happily dazed as a kid.
Quote from: Hepcat on February 02, 2020, 02:40:07 PM
The Revell model kits based on "Big Daddy" Roth's show cars were selling so well in the early 1960's that other model kit companies began scouting the show car circuit for custom rods on which they could base competing kits of their own. One of the very earliest of these was Monogram's Li'l Coffin.
The Li'l Coffin had been built by Dave Stuckey of Wichita, Kansas. The body was based on a 1932 Ford two door sedan and it was powered by a 1954 331 cubic inch De Soto hemi with six carbonators. In 1963 the Li'l Coffin won the Top Custom Car award at the Oakland Roadster Show, the premier rod show in the nation.
So impressed were Monogram executives by the Li'l Coffin that they bought the car and exhibited it at the 1964 New York World's Fair! The Li'l Coffin kit that Monogram put out in 1964 remains an all-time classic.
The bigger kids down the street, Fred and Mike, had one when I was a kid so I bought one too. I had real problems trying to assemble the thing though because some of the parts didn't fit together very well. Here's a closeup shot of the unbuilt one I have today:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/LilCoffin.jpg)
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Ah, the model car craze of the 1960s.
Car Model Magazine was our internet. Those were exciting times, because the kit manufacturers released a lot of show, concept, and kustom cars. My favorite was Jo-Han's Chrysler Turbine. Here's the 1965 first release of the kit that I own today. Check out the exclusive "Frame-Pak" packaging. The Turbine may have been the finest car kit of the '60s. The tooling cost a whopping $250,000 (or 1/4 million, which is 2 million in today's dollars), and was completely underwritten by Chrysler Corporation.
(http://u.cubeupload.com/Tom_Hering/Turbine01.jpg)
Wow! Now there's a kit that would require hours of careful work to assemble.
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Quote from: Hepcat on February 06, 2020, 10:56:34 AM
Wow! Now there's a kit that would require hours of careful work to assemble.
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Yes. The front wheels steer. The hood, trunk, and doors all open. The front seats fold forward. The original vinyl tires in my kit have deteriorated badly over time, so I've added a new set to the box, made by Moebius. The second issue of this kit (in a blue box) included a sheet of self-adhesive chrome foil, years before Bare-Metal Foil came on the market.
Quote from: Tom_Hering on February 05, 2020, 10:24:21 AMQuote from: Hepcat on February 02, 2020, 02:40:07 PMThe Revell model kits based on "Big Daddy" Roth's show cars were selling so well in the early 1960's that other model kit companies began scouting the show car circuit for custom rods on which they could base competing kits of their own.
Ah, the model car craze of the 1960s. Car Model Magazine was our internet.
It wasn't until 1968 that Monogram found its own answer to Revell's wild show rods that "Big Daddy" Roth had designed. That's when Monogram released its first Tom Daniel design, the Beer Wagon:
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Monogram%20Beer%20Wagon_zpsuj5xdjbo.jpg?t=1581438527)
The second was the Red Baron:
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Monogram%20Red%20Baron_zpsjeljtnei.jpeg?t=1581438563)
All in all, Monogram released 77 model kits based on concepts by Tom Daniel between 1968 and 1975. One of these was the Ghost of the Red Baron from 1969:
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Monogram%20Ghost%20of%20the%20RB_zps8xy34ib3.jpeg)
Granted it was a cheap snap-together "kit" but the concept was good. Here are some really nice pictures of rkoenn's buildup:
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/rkoenn19_zpsgtwfljxs.jpg)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/rkoenn17_zpszcwbdfni.jpg)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/rkoenn18_zpsd7rfjjrj.jpg)
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I saw the Lil' Coffin picture in this thread and I did one of those not too long ago. I think I built one when I was a kid too in the '60s as I thought it was so cool. It was an actual show car that made the rounds. Here's my build, again if my link works.
(https://scontent.ftpa1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/19250541_10155409035444431_5669783881258409774_o.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_oc=AQnKQvSiMWpIinLcDicLRgY-UcMgBS552Z-uARiL-yPifo1MoUwdR8aaJl6amfh_WqQ&_nc_ht=scontent.ftpa1-1.fna&oh=d1c44df5a29a630a55263cfd2168f3e5&oe=5EC218B3)
Well I see it now but looking at the coding I suspect that's a link that won't work for long.
:-\
This seems to fit in here best and is a monster themed fantasy car kit I built about 3 years ago. It is the Tom Daniel designed Monogram Bad Medicine. I have a number of his kits and they are great. I fondly remember them from my childhood when he was designing them.
(https://scontent.ftpa1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/18402011_10155273733054431_3176705734259365988_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_eui2=AeH5T4S8piNopNnHdzDiDZ1ztt4Ndebxks1Y-UrJPJ3ArpjW00Q7gLGjvNwxSwklanuiA2vKLSoZWr74XJBBs1oDQpv_Gi9QBBKTbRLsqpGaMA&_nc_oc=AQn79XpG2KjGCYG46XH9jyeTptqh4Et6E7lpWz_7d3r1CiajeJsUbUZNW90zzY1bRvg&_nc_ht=scontent.ftpa1-2.fna&oh=34550df2e47dfbea19203c5b899432e8&oe=5EC4C1BD)
Cool! Tom Daniel models are boss!
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Quote from: buzzconroy on August 01, 2013, 08:51:14 AMmy builds of the flypogger series.
Here are the unobscured pictures:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Super_Fuzz_2.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Super_Fuzz_1.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Super_Fuzz_3.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Flip_Out_2.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Flipout_1.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
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Just got word from our hobby distributor that Atlantis has announced new reissues of Super Fuzz and Flip Out (along with Roth's Surfink) for Q2 and Q3 of 2021. They're still taking stock of all the tooling they bought from Revell/Monogram, so who knows what might turn up. Brother Rat Fink? The Seuss kits? Not likely, but then, the Ghost of the Red Baron was believed lost forever, so you never know!
Quote from: Tom_Hering on February 05, 2020, 10:24:21 AMAh, the model car craze of the 1960s. Car Model Magazine was our internet. Those were exciting times....
Oh man, just seeing the cover logo of a Car Model magazine from the mid-1960's makes me feel all warm and fuzzy with nostalgia!
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Car_Model_Magazine_0.jpg) (https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Car_Model_Magazine_1964.jpg)
Add the smell of a styrene model kit, modelling cement and Testors or Pactra enamel paint and I'm in heaven! Especially with a few penny slabs of Bazooka or Dubble Bubble on which to chew.
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Here's a boss Super Fuzz kit built by Tim Nolan:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Super_Fuzz_4.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Super_Fuzz_1(1).jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Super_Fuzz_5.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Super_Fuzz_3(2).jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Super_Fuzz_2(1).jpg)
Hundreds more pictures of his wild cool builds can be found at his website:
Gallery of Monsters, Creatures, Finks & Weirdo's - Ratdaddy Studios (https://ratdaddystudios.smugmug.com/Art/Gallery-of-Sci-Fi-models/)
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Here's a boss cool Mouse kit that Monogram never issued, a detail which didn't prevent Tim Nolan from building it from scratch anyway!
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Fred_Flypogger_5.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Fred_Flypogger_4.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Fred_Flypogger_3.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Fred_Flypogger_1.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Fred_Flypogger_2.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Fred_Flypogger_11.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Fred_Flypogger_10.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Fred_Flypogger_8.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Fred_Flypogger_7.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Fred_Flypogger_6.jpg)
Dig the wild and crazy two-tone candy paint job on the roadster!
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Quote from: Hepcat on February 02, 2018, 02:30:33 PM
Here are some rad cool early Mouse T-shirt ads:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/mouse-ad-hotrod-customcar-magsept1961_zpstfvkz22g.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Mouse%201_zpspgnefxvi.jpg)
And here are a few more wild Mouse T-shirt ads:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/(edited)_Mouse.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mouse_ad_6.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mouse_ad.jpg)
Here are two of the $0.50 catalogs that his beady-eyed fans could order:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mouse_catalog_3.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/mouse-studios-original-1962_catalogue.jpg)
Unlike "Big Daddy" Roth, Mouse continued to provide mail order buyers with individually air-brushed T-shirts. And in a whopping fifteen different fluorescent colors! Mouse could actually draw quite well and sketched the designs himself. Here's an example of a finished T-shirt that a buyer would have received in the mail:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mouse_shirt.jpg)
In contrast a mail-order customer of "Big Daddy" Roth would have received a T-shirt of one of "Big Daddy" Roth's designs that Wes Bennett or then Ed Newton had turned into a finished drawing that could then be screen printed. The T-shirt was then spray painted over with generally three different colored streaks as per the ad below:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Roth_coloured_ad.jpg)
:)
Here's a point-of-purchase display sign from the mid-1960's that highlights the friendly rivalry prevailing between Stanley Mouse and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/mouse-v-fink-L.jpg)
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Here are some beautifully coloured Mouse designs:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mouse_colours_4(1).jpg) (https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mouse_colours_2.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mouse_design_coloured(3).jpg) (https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/MOUSE-Rat-Fink-MONSTER-KUSTOM.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mouse_colours_1.jpg) (https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mouse_Equipped.jpg)
Wild One looks very much like the work of our own Weldonmc as do the two bottom ones. But some of the others may very well have been coloured by Mouse himself since he was an artist comfortable working with various media.
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Here for comparative purposes are some Mouse designs that I know were coloured by Weldonmc (who sadly seems to have disappeared):
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/MOUSESurfCity(1).jpg) (https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/MOUSEExcuseMyDust(1).jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/MOUSESpeedShift.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/MOUSEScreamin40.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/MOUSEBeatBeast.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/MOUSEDotBugMeMan.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/MOUSEDragStripTerror.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mouse_PussyGalor.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/MOUSELongArm.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/MouseMonsterClub.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
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Just got word from our distributor that the reissues of "Super Fuzz" and "Flip Out" that Atlantis announced last year are scheduled to finally come out later on this year. Keep your fingers crossed1
I suspect from their silence on the subject that the molds for "Speed Shift" are either damaged or flat-out gone, but who knows?
Here are pics of Hugohernandez's wild Speed Shift build:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Speed_Shift_2.webp)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Speed_Shift_1.webp)
:)